Barcelona beats Benfica 0-2 but in exchange for an injury Puyol

Last update 16 November, 2012 by Julio Muñoz

Barça has achieved with its triumph against Benfica (0-2) The plenary of victories in the League and in Champions League and thus meets an objective that at the beginning of the season seemed utopian just before receiving Real Madrid at Camp Nou. Despite this Puyol's new injury, that in a spectacular fall suffered a dislocation in the elbow, It was the most negative aspect of the night.

Those of Vilanova were far superior to their rival and despite being able to win with a slaughter resolved the encounter with Alexis's goals at the beginning of the first part and CESC at the beginning of the second. Barça is still packed at this beginning of the season and improves game by game.
Vilanova repeated the system with only two midfielders and with CESC as second striker and stepping on the area.

Arenys is already the player who claimed at the beginning of the season and also manages to see goal after match. Between him and Messi they drove the Portuguese centrals and media crazy down to receive and drag their markers to create spaces for the extremes.

Again the 4-2-4 It served for Barça to have more lights in attack with more players reaching the rival area. The coach's courage is having a prize for the moment and now we will have to see what the approach is to a Real Madrid that will predictably be locked up to seek victory against.

Barça's game is not sensacional, Do not delight, He even suffers in party sections, But the meetings are carried out effectively thanks to a lot of work, collective effort and great individual details. Tonight marked the first to have and insisted not finishing for a very intense benfic.
The Lisbon team, as it was presumed, It turned out to be a category sparring before the impetuous classic. Jorge Jesús's men demonstrated because they are candidates to be in the round of 16 and despite the casualties of Luisao and Cardozo, They planted Barça.

They had to do it by carrying the party to the body, raising the pressure the intensity and the submerged game that Cakir allowed for many minutes. Valdés had to save a hand in hand with Lima and the rest were balls with a stopped ball.

After Thiago's injury, Vilanova has received bad news with Puyol's injury tonight, that reappeared before Benfica and that was the usual, Until in a bad it twisted the arm and safely the classic will be lost. Before Madrid Vilanova will have to align Song, Despite the doubts he has shown so far.

The good news was Alexis's great performance, Very missing at this beginning of the season. The Chilean has taken to reach that explosiveness that surprised last year, But before Benfica he showed that the best Alexis is coming.

The Tocopilla joined the usual physical deployment both in defense and attack a great capacity to win the back to the rival side, to the one who surprised on several occasions. He had three goals in his boots and scored one. Gave another to Messi that Artur stopped.